Linking soil biology and chemistry in biological soil crust using isolate exometabolomics

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Swenson, Tami L ^a   Karaoz, Ulas ^a   Swenson, Joel M ^a   Bowen, Benjamin P ^a,b   Northen, Trent R ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NICHE PARTITIONING; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL CRUST;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEOBACTERIA; RPLO GENE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MICROFLORA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SOIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOME; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 85039934070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02356-9     Document Type: Article

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